Most Influential 2022

"Erick Calderon, AKA Snow Fro" (Dave Krugman/CoinDesk)
The Artist/CEO Generating $1.4B – and Growing – in Generative Art Sales
Blockchain-based algorithmic art is bucking the downward market trend of NFTs and one of the most popular platforms supporting this work is five-year-old Art Blocks. That’s wh...
"Erick Calderon, AKA Snow Fro" (Dave Krugman/CoinDesk)

Free Alex Pertsev poster spotted outside the courthouse (Jack Schickler/CoinDesk)
‘We Are All F****d’: The Developers of Tornado Cash and the Future of Crypto
The arrest of a web developer for the now-sanctioned currency mixer Tornado Cash has raised questions about whom states can hold responsible when bad actors use software to co...
Free Alex Pertsev poster spotted outside the courthouse (Jack Schickler/CoinDesk)

"market wizards" (OSF/CoinDesk)
The Four Horsemen of the Cryptocalypse
Move over, war, famine, pestilence and death. Meet the CEOs of Terraform Labs, Three Arrows Capital, Celsius Network and Voyager Digital. For blowing up crypto, Do Kwon, Su Zh...
"market wizards" (OSF/CoinDesk)

"The V God" (Federico Solmi/CoinDesk)
Ethereum Pulled Off The Year’s Biggest Blockchain Event
It was no small task for the hundreds of developers and client teams to build, coordinate, and successfully swap out Ethereum’s core from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake. That...
"The V God" (Federico Solmi/CoinDesk)

Zooko Wilcox (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)
Zcash Doesn’t Need Your Trust
For years, the Electric Coin Company has been breaking new ground with zero-knowledge proofs. This year it radically improved privacy on its Zcash protocol, even as the right...
Zooko Wilcox (Will Ess for Pixelmind.ai/CoinDesk)

What to Expect From CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022 List
What to Expect From CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022 List
CoinDesk's Most Influential 2022, a list of the biggest changemakers in crypto, blockchain and Web3, is out Monday. CoinDesk Tech Managing Editor Christie Harkin shares a prev...
What to Expect From CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022 List

(Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)
Vote for 2022's Most Influential in Crypto
After crypto's annus mirabilis, 2022 is shaping up to be a year of reckoning. More than ever, CoinDesk's list of the most influential in crypto will not be a popularity contes...
(Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)